Trial and Follow-up of the Efficacy of Two-stage Integrated Treatment for Chinese Schizophrenia Inpatients

Summary

Regular psychosocial intervention combined with antipsychotic drugs, compared with usual medication alone treatments, can reduce psychiatric symptoms and improve quality of life in patients with schizophrenia. However, it's expensive, time-consuming, and sometimes inconvenient for patients and their family members in developing areas where the number of well-trained therapist remains limited in local psychiatric settings. The investigators aimed to establish an efficient model of integrated treatment (IT) for patients with schizophrenia. The procedure contains two stages: a centralized treatment during hospitalization and the following consolidation treatments with long intervals.

Timeline

Start

2012-01

Primary completion

2016-12

Completion

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Publications

• She S, Deng Y, Chen Y, Wu C, Yi W, Lu X, Chen X, Li J, Li R, Zhang J, Xiao D, Wu H, Ning Y, Zheng Y. Two-stage integrated care versus antipsychotic medication alone on outcomes of schizophrenia: One-year randomized controlled trial and follow-up. Psychiatry Res. 2017 Aug;254:164-172. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.04.054. Epub 2017 Apr 25.

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